On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Manuel Spínola mspinol...@gmail.com wrote:
I think there is a confusion about hypothesis testing that Jane was
referring to in the original post. We are moving away from her questions.
Well, I was asking about both types of hypothesis testing. They're
different
Hi Matt,
Since this conversation has gotten off to a solid start (but where's
Wirt Atmar? I expected to hear more from our resident ex-physicist), I
can now reveal more of my thoughts. Specifically, you've come near a
very important point. Even natural history requires what may be called
Hi Jeff,
Prediction and understanding are actually very different things and
being good at one doesn't necessarily imply being good at the other.
An example from the book _Foresight and Understanding_ by Stephen
Toulmin: the Babylonians had no concept of the heliocentric solar
system but they
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Rudhira, I would definitely include the studies you describe as natural
history and as ecology. I was somewhat tongue in cheek, and a little bit
serious in my earlier post. To me, bottom line, ecology is an attempt to
understand the nature (or history) of nature. In recent years we have
Dear list members,
For those interested on statistical hypothesis testing, null hypothesis
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Dear Malcom,
I am not aware of that procedure. Can you explain a little bit more how
this work? I would like to hear more on that because I teach statistics
and I could consider teaching that procedure in my courses.
What do you mean with complex regression analysis and a suite of
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I'd like to add my $0.02 because I disagree that ecology is simply a dressing
up of natural history. Although I value natural history and historians, they
are not studying the same things as ecologists.
According to my Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, natural
history is the
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Hi folks,
What is the minimum sample size allowable for nearest-neighbour calculations?
Thanks in advance
Mark
I think there might be a useful distinction between natural history and
ecology, namely, the degree to which observations are replicated. With the
phrase natural history there is no connotation or expectation that
observations can be strictly replicated (this does not mean patterns cannot
be
Marcus, with due respect, and I do respect your opinion and contributions: You
are simply pointing out the evolution of our science, which now probes more
deeply into the nature of nature than did those who did its work in earlier
centuries. We evolved from describing the objects in nature to
I think the common interpretation of natural history among ecologists
could be called descriptive ecology. It has the tacit hypotheses Matt
Chew listed, but I don't think people associate natural history with
explicit hypothesis-testing. It's about collecting and describing
observations that
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Maybe this was true in the 19th century, and there are still some
minor outlets where
observational notes with limited or no replication is accepted so you
can publish the
kind of observations you suggest, but modern and mainstream natural history
studies require huge sample sizes and extensive
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There is a paper by Halliday and Jaeger published in Herpetologica
some years ago that is central to this discussion. It discusses the
differences between explorative and confirmative research. Most
scientists spend their time doing confirmative research, which is
hypothesis testing. However,
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